Please spay and neuter your pets! While your newborn pets are cute, failing to do this allows your little darlings to add to the population of homeless animals. Adopt pets from your local animal rescues/shelters, there are plenty of animals just waiting for a home.

Mine has a full sleeve on his front-left leg, and a half sleeve on his front-right. To be sure it's him, on his front-right shoulder there's a mouse skull with crossbones which says "Jerry's my bitch".

He has been gone for 3 days now, so if you see him then please PM me.

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THANK YOU SO MUCH REDDIT! He was spotted under the bridge near 170 and Pecos (Denver, CO) nippin' with a bunch of neighborhood cats. These felines obviously are a bad influence for him, so he's going to stay inside for awhile.

Really? My biggest fear as a pet owner is my pet dying horribly. I mean, it would suck if someone snatched up sweet little Yuri, but I'm not like "oh my God, I can't let Yuri get out or the neighbors will abduct him." I'm more like "I can't let Yuri get out because cars and poison and badgers and trucks and starving and soup cans and tragic."

There have long been rumors that people steal cats (especially black cats) on Halloween in order to ritually kill them. Usually the rumors are about drunk teenagers setting Mr. Whiskers on fire and shit like that, but sometimes they include Satanic ritual sacrifice.

Yes, seriously. And no. My friend and I were inside her house, and we heard a loud bang. When we peeked out the window we saw this guy walk back to his car and drive away. It was probably 5-10 minutes later that we heard the cat making piteous meows. He was lying right by the garbage cans in front of the house, no more than 20 feet from the doorstep. He was bleeding, so we wrapped him in a towel, called the emergency line for the vet, and took him there. The vet confirmed that he had been shot and tried to help him, but he died there overnight.

Edit: Got caught up in my memories. We didn't get a good luck at the guy or his car, as it was dark and we weren't that concerned about it at the time. We didn't realize that the bang was from a gun, or we would have called the police. Regardless, after confirmation of a gunshot wound in the cat, we did call the police and tell them to look out for a shitbag with a gun, driving around and shooting cats for no fucking reason at all.

Hiding the cat sounds like a fun Halloween tradition. Was it like easter where your parents hide it and you gotta find it the next day. And you receive even more candy if you find it. Damn it my parents screwed me out of a wonderful childhood.

Nah, back in the 70's and 80's christian groups were all about the evil, satanic, heavy metal music corrupting the youth. Some idiot kids somewhere probably did kill cats. But I think the whole thing got blown out of proportion and has become an urban legend. Still to this day there are shelters that put black cat adoptions on hold for all of October.
But my mom was exactly the same. She was sure our black cat would be taken. In reality he was an indoor cat and a coward, who hid when anyone came to the door.

My dog got hit by a car that didn't stop or do anything. Let me go ahead and point out that my road is in a slow residential neighborhood with "look out for kids" signs up. She was only a few years old and still had a lot to be taught, a lot of things to chew up, and a lot more wags in her tail. She crawled back to the house, dug a hole, laid down and internally bled for five hours until I could get home and put her down.

Having once witnessed a car run over the entire back half of a cat and then all subsequent traffic ignore it as it's dying in agony, I'd have to agree with you. If only someone had the balls to run over the other half and finish the poor thing off instead of me having to run out there in traffic to pull it off to the side of the road and hold it in your arms until it died a few minutes later.

They are giving it to a vet friend. I bet the vet knows what to do. It's true that many rescued animals actually have owners missing their pets dearly.

Last year my boyfriend got a call from the vet, "was he missing a kittie?". "No, I don't think so." A lady had brought in this kittie who "had been hanging around much lately, so it did not seem that he had a place to live, you know, since the cat was spending so much time there".

Luckily it was chipped. Turns out she had taken him from our common backyard (we live in a building complex, on the ground floor, with a garden, and there is a big private park just over the fence). She did not understand that the cat was hanging about because he lived there. She brought him back and let him go.

I did that by mistake. I was taking classes at the community college a couple of blocks away from our house when I was approached by a grey cat that looked like my daughter's. I called him by name, and he came up and rubbed on my leg. So I picked him up, put him in the car, and drove him home. I only realized my error when I was greeted in front of our house by my daughter's grey cat. I turned around and took my little kidnappee back where I picked him up.

One of the things to remember about cats is they really do go where the best food is

There's a cat in our area - with collar, that does the rounds around the houses looking for food because he's a starved little thing.

We're pretty sure he has a home, but we don't know where he comes from. But what we're sure of is that when we stopped feeding him, because we went on holiday for 2 weeks, he was skin and bones when we got back.

Long story short, with cats, as long as you feed them properly, and treat them well, they are unlikely to run away.

But some cats are just really friendly and like visiting neighbours. We fed ours well, but that didn't stop her from walking into other people's kitchens to see if there was more to be had. I actually had to ask around in the neighbourhood to find out who was feeding our cat and to please stop as she was on medication and had a strict diet at the time.

My neighbor originally had one cat that hitched a ride in his tire-well back from a family visit in another state, and the frisky fella ended up making a family with a stray, but anyway...my neighbor's cats basically live in my backyard because well honestly, we have much better landscaping and it's slightly bigger. We treat them like our own, both my neighbors and us love them. Here's my favorite, Pippy, all tuckered out by my pool :) Link

My mom had a cat that would do that - visit neighbors for more food. She once attached a note to him saying, "I get fed at home; please don't feed me more!" When he came home, he had another note attached that said something like, "but he's so cute we can't resist!"

Our cat is just plain dumb. We live in a townhouse, and there are lots of similar houses in the blocks around us. If he gets out, he seems to just get turned around and start meowing at the door of any house that looks like ours. Luckily he's never wandered too far...

Indoor - They never go outside. They might try to get outside, but they are scared shitless when they do and usually don't ever try to "run away."

Outdoor - pretty much strays or "neighborhood" cats who favor their owner's porch, provided there is food. They are usually super friendly and outgoing, and actively seek out humans (pedestrians, etc.).

Outdoorsy indoor cats - they sleep inside several times a day and always at night. They eat inside, and they usually don't wander more than half a block. If they don't get to go outside (via your suggestion), they cause trouble, poop on carpets or hard floors, climb things, break things, etc. If they are on a diet, they will probably eat your food, and be friendly to you. Most cats are in this category, and its easy to get them confused with the previous.

My cat is definitely a type 3...loves being outside, but comes home for a noon time siesta usually. Will ONLY do his business outside. Refuses to use his litter. 2.5 years, only one bag of the stuff.

And yes, he causes trouble when he isn't let free for more than a day or so. I'm just glad we live almost a mile from the main road... He doesn't know how lucky he was to be adopted by a family that lives somewhere which he can go about his business.

People don't like to think that you should keep your cat in the house, but you should. They fuck up the ecosystem, get lost, hit by cars, taken in by other people when you decide to let them wander will-nilly like they're supposed to be out in the wild or something. If you want them to hang outside for awhile, put them on a leash.

There actually was a reddit post some while back with a scientific article that said that cats are the reason for the loss of biodiversity of North American birds or something like that. Yes, humans change the ecosystem as well, but I don't think we should fully disregard the damage cats can do as well.

Another option is to fence an area. We used 6 foot fencing with very few vertical slats. Even then, one cat could easily climb it, so we added a slight overhang. Now our three cats are free to roam a fenced 30'x40' area. They seem to really enjoy it.

I mean for fucks sake people, there's feral cat problems because people feed them. Fed cats breed, then animal shelters get bad reps for putting down feral cat populations that you just bred in your back yard.

Seriously a breeding pair and their offspring can produce 400,000 cats in 7 years if they're not being killed off by hunger, predators, etc.

Not to mention feeding cats promotes their breeding by attracting solitary cats together!

Seriously, if you want to feed those cats that you don't know if they have a home or not, you should be prepared to go kill its offspring a couple times a year.

Be humane and leave that fucking cat alone! Because you're going to stop feeding those strays when there are a dozen coming around, and they'll all be feral cats you helped breed, that can't be given to people in a shelter and either starve, get eaten by coyotes, run over or euthanized.

If you think it's a stray, take it to the SPCA. If you think it's feral, take it to a spay-neuter program. That is the humane thing to do, not breed more into suffering through your idiotic "kindness".

I've lost three cats to my neighbors because they fed them and stayed. It also has to do with my dad getting a dog. My next door neighbor has a huge garden and all the neighborhood cats go there and get fed. It's pretty lame, my oldest cat stayed in the garden after my dad got the dog, ended up getting sick and the neighbor called a vet and I haven't seen him in two years. My hope is that they nursed him to health and he got a new family but it's doubtful considering he was a skittish half blind Siamese who was close to 15 years old. I got collars for the two cats I got after the dog since someone put up a fucking missing cat flyer for my cat Dick Chenney. They took his collar off, and my dad saw a couple petting him a few houses down and asked if it was their cat. They said yes and my father went off on him. They said they took the collar off because they started feeding him since he looked so skinny, he's just been really small for years. Who the fuck takes a collar off a cat? I haven't seen him in months and my dad refuses to tell me what house they live in because I'll rampage.

We had one who did the same thing. He got himself a second family down the street.

Then one year during halloween, one of the kids from that house came to our house to trick or treat, and told us "hey, you've got our cat!". Upon discussion with his mother we found that he had been hanging around their house and they had let him in assuming he was a stray.

He'd been living with both of us for a year or so, and got double-doses of all his shots.

He also let himself into another neighbour's house by opening the window screen with his paw. He went into the guy's bathroom and visited him while he was in the bath.

One day the cat left and never returned. I like to think he just found another family who didn't let him back out.

Yeah. I imagine that a good half of all "rescued" cats on reddit are people's outdoor cats that accidentally get their heads stuck soup cans or something of that nature. If that was a feral cat, it would have scratched the shit out of them.

There will still be a residual smell in it. There is a liner in the can that is applied to the metal to seal it. That liner absorbs the smell. Just because you can't smell it, doesn't mean a cat can't. I'll not take any chances and will continue to crush them.

we saw this little guy crossing the street, stuck out as there was a can on his head. There were two other little ones with him, but they wouldn't come near us. This one wasn't vocal at all, but was shaking alot, purring. Who knows how long that can was on his head?

Pretty sure. We live in an area with a large number of strays, so it's not uncommon to see them. He was one of three small kittens we saw in the road late last night. The other two wouldn't come near us. Obviously, the kitty will be checked for a chip when he make it to the vet.

This is how our cat was found by animal control as well! We were at the Cat Call adoption event at a PetCo, and saw the tiniest little cat. She had just been cleared by the vet for adoption, and the lady from Cat Call told us she had been found with a empty can of creamed corn stuck on her head, so the shelter had named her "Corny." My wife said "We will NOT call this poor baby "Corny," that's just cruel." Since she has gold undertones to her fur and gold eyes, we named her Goldie.

I'm glad you stopped and saved this little guy. What a horrible way to die. Blind, starving and thirsty.

I had the same thing happen to me with a weasel and an old coke bottle. Freeing him was not easy, and was scary as hell. I was worried I would free him and he would unleash his weasely fury on me. Luckily he just bounded off into the woods. I used a rock and carefully broke the neck of the bottle to get him out.

i did the same thing with a skunk with a yoplait cup wedged nicely around his neck. It actually took 4 shakes, each time me dancing very gingerly away from the skunk. The last shake I lifted entire skunk off the ground and gave a real big tug on the container and it finally dropped out and scampered away. no spray!! An old lady watching me was laughing pretty hard

Instead of constantly arguing, can't we just all agree that it's good the cat is in good hands now? For crying out loud. He's safe indoors now, being checked over and put up for adoption according to the OP, so stop your bitching and be thankful that he's okay now.

It's not the OP's responsibility to post fliers, it's the cat owner's responsibility to chip it so when GG OP takes it for a checkup they'd instantly know who to contact.

Edit: Ah, good old Reddit, downvoted for suggesting that pet owners act responsibly and that good people helping a clearly distressed animal shouldn't be guilt-tripped about "possibly taking someone's cat".

If your cat is outside without a collar, dirty, and running around a city with a can stuck on it's head then it ain't your cat no more.

Responsible cat owners use breakaway collars, so if the cat catches his collar on something, he won't strangle himself. I mostly agree with you, though; if it's not microchipped or collared and it's outside in the city with a soup can, better try again with a new pet and better tactics.

He was just about to go into battle and you removed his protective helmet and bathed him? Not only is he now vulnerable to head damage but his ego has been damaged by giving him a bath like a big baby. Battlecat will not be amused.

I just want you to know that my morning hasn't been that great. After seeing this post of you saving that poor cat, who might have gotten hit by a car or had a slower hunger death, and adopting it, you really brightened up my morning. Thank you for being such a good person! It actually makes me really happy to see that cat is okay and in a good home now.

This makes me so happysad. We picked up a cat on the side of the road that looked like this one; we watched the car drop it off. She was very skinny and sick (respiratory infection causing the same gooky eyes), but she is doing wonderful now.

Bless your heart! <3 This kitty is still better off in a safe warm home, regardless if it belongs to another family or not. If my animals ever got lost, I would hope a kind stranger would take them in and care for them as I would have.

I see strays around my apartment complex sometimes and I try to get them to at least take care of them until I can find their owners, but they always dart away before I can show them I'm not scary!

People whining that OP stole someone's cat? Classic. You let your cat out in a busy city, with no collar, or chip, or anything and OP is evil for helping a cat in need? Here's a tip, if you live in the city - don't let your cat out. I just had to do the same last night with a 4 month old kitten in one of the busiest intersections in my city. I'm sorry, but my conscience is more important than an irresponsible pet owner.

I was riding my bike home ages ago when I saw in the dark what appeared to be a floating Mcflurry cup, puzzled I stopped and got off my bicycle and took a closer look. Apparently a hedgehog had found a cup and decided to get the good bits out from the bottom and then gotten stuck on it.
So he was crossing the road with it on his head when I just went "hey hey.. wait a minute!" and amazingly enough, he stopped and the end of the cup turned towards me. I crouched down and told him to be still and gently pulled it off him. I saw a icecream covered snout and he sneezed once, then he took one more look at me and calmly walked out of there like a boss.

I love the picture of you with the constipated face (you were taking the can off and concentrating). Kitty needs a bath! If you check with your local places of pet storage (pound or shelter) to see if anyone has reported it missing before keeping the little Campbell, I think it would be best. You don't want to take it in and have someone loose their beloved pet.

Make sure you put ads out, call vets in your area/where the cat was found, etc. to make sure that the cat didn't belong to someone else. Sometimes cats do dumb things (my cat had a habit of getting stuck inside kleenex boxes and glasses) and maybe he freaked out and got lost.

you're amazing for saving this kitten's life. I truly hope there are more people in the world who would save this then people in the world who would take pictures, post it to FB, then leave it on the streets stuck in the soup can.

I lived with a few guys during my senior year at university, and we had a very stupid cat. One day the cat came sauntering into the living room with his face covered in red. We were all shocked and thought that he had hurt himself. We got up to check on him, but he bolted for the kitchen. We followed him, and by the time we got in there he was neck deep in an empty can of ravioli. The red was all sauce - no cuts, thankfully.

Thank you for being awesome people!
Who knows how long that can was on his head, and if someone didn't stick it on him or if he just stuck his own head in there trying to find food.
Either way, You have saved this little guys life.
I salute you.
Meow.